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There have been quite a number of events throughout 2017 that have had IBM MQ content delivered at them. I hope you were able to attend at least one. The presentation material is online for many of these events, and download links are shown below where we are aware of them.

At the recent MQTC Conference, MQGem ran a Prize Draw where one lucky entrant would win access to five free education courses by MQGem which will be going live in November. These courses can be done by the winning entrant or any member of his company, so if he has any new members in his department that can benefit from some IBM MQ education, they could use them.

John will receive access to his five free courses sometime around the beginning of November 2017 when the MQGem Education courses go live. Look out for further announcements on here if you’re interested in taking some online education courses yourself.

We’ve just finished a great three days at the MQTC v2.0.1.7 conference in Sandusky, Ohio. MQTC is the only conference dedicated to IBM MQ education, and was again very well attended by speakers, sponsors and attendees. Both Paul and Morag gave technical presentations as we mentioned in an earlier blog post.

For the first time in the 5-year run of this conference, we started the conference with an unopposed session, “What’s New in IBM Messaging”, before splitting into 5 tracks as in previous years. Roger Lacroix, who is the founder of the conference, made some opening remarks prior to that session, and then took his first ever selfie with the audience!

MQGem was a Gold Sponsor of the conference, and so also had a couple of vendor presentation sessions which were presented by Paul; the first on Monday, was about our MQ administration products, MO71 and MQSCX. Then on Wednesday, the second presentation was about our Message Manipulation products, MQEdit and QLOAD.

In the lab room this year, complementing the z/OS platform lab exercises provided by Lyn Elkins and Mitch Johnson, we made freely available our soon-to-be-released education courses. These were available for those people wanting to learn things on the distributed platforms, and a number of people tried them out. Our prize draw this year was to win access to five free courses, when they go live in around a months time. It was very heartening to see people learn new things while doing the courses, and good feedback was received on the exercises.

We also had a booth in the Sponsor Pavilion on Monday and Tuesday evening, where we gave personalised demos of any of the products to attendees who came by, gave out product brochures, free mouse mats, and beer koozies, and collected entries for our prize draw.

It’s nearly September, and in less than four weeks is the MQTC conference in Sandusky, Ohio.

MQTC – the only conference dedicated to IBM MQ – takes place from September 25 to September 27. There is a full schedule of technical sessions as well as a number of vendor sessions. There’s also lots of information about the conference on the CapitalWare Blog, and you can follow the twitter hashtag #MQTC2017.

MQGem Software is a Gold Sponsor of the conference, so come and find us in the evening Sponsor Pavilion, held in the Zambezi room, on Monday and Tuesday, and we can demonstrate any of the MQGem products to you and you can enter our prize draw. Or just grab a beer from the bar and come and say “Hello”.

This entry level session will teach the basics of the beautifully simple MQ API – the MQI. You’ll have heard many describe how writing an application for MQ is very simple, just MQPUT a message, or MQGET a message. Come to this session and learn it for yourself. Example code in C and COBOL will be used, and a live demonstration using an API Exerciser will show how some of the input and output fields operate.

This session will introduce you to the MQI message property calls. You’ll learn how to create message handles, and use them to populate, or read message properties on an IBM MQ message. Example code in C and COBOL will be used, and a live demonstration using an API Exerciser will show how some of the input and output fields operate.

Application Activity Trace is a feature of IBM MQ that allows you to discover exactly what the applications connected to your queue manager are doing. You can see the object names that they open and the options they use on the various verbs they call. You can find out about the size, persistence, priority and more, of your messages. Please note, this feature is only available on the Distributed platforms.

This session introduces the IBM MQ clients: what they are, on which platforms they run, and how customers use them in their applications. We will mainly focus on the ‘C’ IBM MQ MQI client, but will also introduce the Java and XMS clients. The session will also discuss a number of basic implementation considerations, including when it may be appropriate to use each client and describe new client features. The intent is to familiarize you with the things necessary to succeed with a simple IBM MQ client implementation.

In this session, Paul Clarke, founder and CEO of MQGem Software, will take you through the administration tools that MQGem produces. This includes MO71 – our GUI administrator for MQ and MQSCX – a huge improvement on MQSC. The presentation will be largely based on demonstrations of the tools.

In this session, Paul Clarke, founder and CEO of MQGem Software, will take you through the message manipulation tools that MQGem produces. This include MQEdit – our GUI Message editor for MQ, and QLOAD – the load/unload messages tool. The presentation will be largely based on demonstrations of the tools.

A popular section of last year’s round up blog post was the section containing all the conference material from the year. So this year, it’s getting a post all to itself!

There have been quite a number of events throughout 2016 that have had IBM MQ content delivered at them. I hope you were able to attend at least one. The presentation material is online for many of these events, and download links are shown below where we are aware of them.

At the recent MQTC Conference, MQGem ran a Prize Draw where one lucky entrant would win an Enterprise licence to use MQEdit for free for a year. An Enterprise licence allows your whole company to use the product worldwide.

Gary will receive his licence file sometime before the end of January 2017 when the free beta period expires. Currently, EVERYONE can use it for free. Just go to the website and download a copy to try, no sign-up, no obligation to buy.

We’ve just finished three days in Sandusky, Ohio at this years MQTC Conference, the best, and only dedicated conference for IBM MQ Technical Education.

It was great to see so much interest in MQ at the conference, with numbers up from last years attendance, and more vendors in the sponsors pavilion than in previous years. Paul and Morag both gave technical presentions as we mentioned in an earlier blog post.

MQGem was a Gold Sponsor of the conference, and so also had a couple of vendor presentation sessions which were presented by Paul; the first on Monday, about our new product, MQEDIT, a live parsing MQ message editor; and the second on Wednesday, about our other three products, MQSCX, MO71 and QLOAD.

Paul presenting the MQGem editor – MQEDIT

MQGem also had a booth in the vendor pavillion on Monday and Tuesday evening, where we gave personalised demos of any of the products to attendees who came by, gave out product brochures and free mouse mats, and collected entries for our prize draw to win an MQEDIT 1-year Enterprise licence. We were very pleased with the interest in our products shown by the attendees that visited the booth, and Paul spent a lot of time demonstrating the many features of all our products.

MQGem Product Brochures

MQGem Mouse mats

MQGem’s Booth at the Sponsor Pavillion (Expo)

It was great to catch up with many friends and customers that we hadn’t met face-to-face for a while.

Yet again, the Kalahari Resort has done this conference proud, and huge thanks go to Capitalware for putting on a great three days.

Another great MQ Technical Conference in the books-safe travels home, everyone! #MQTC2016#IBMMQ

Next years conference, MQTCv2.0.1.7 has already been announced for 25-27th September and we hope to see many more people attending this marvellous event next year. MQGem hopes to be able to support MQTC again next year.